Word: perishings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thicket. Sayre's case, at first glance, appears to be clear proof of the academic injunction: "Publish or perish." Actually, it sharpens a whole batch of thorny issues that are becoming increasingly worrisome to students, professors and administrators trying to pick their way through the thickets of academe. The problem is especially acute at Tufts and other schools trying hard to make the academic big time, such as Emory, Western Reserve, Rochester and Tulane. Says the ambitious, respected president of Tufts, Nils Y. Wessel, "We are a threshold university...
...most distorting" myths about the American university is that teaching and research and incompatible, Dean Ford said yesterday. In an editorial-page article for the Boston Sunday Globe, he also attacked another "myth"--"that 'publish or perish' is the single rule governing academic advancement...
Although Sayre and his supporters maintain that the "publish-or-perish" question is the main issue, the college's action is also being contested on legal grounds. The argument revolves around the interpretation of the teuure rules of Tufts and of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP...
...scared out of South Viet Nam and throws in the sponge, we, as a free nation, will perish within 20 years...
...Rindge, Graham was more harsh than soft-toned. "The Bible says God will judge the secrets and intents of our hearts," he intoned. "Jesus said: 'Except ye repent, ye shall perish,' He called for conversion. Conversion will make you free...